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Raed

#4,500 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Raid

Raed has been given to 477 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,500 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Raed, 2025

1 in 144,000

Raed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Raed: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Raid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Raed means

Raed is a alternate transcription of Raid.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Raid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 477 boys were recorded with the name Raed between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,388 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,924 in 2020 to #4,500 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,229 in 2015 to #4,500 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Raed?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,500
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Raed sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Raed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Raeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Raed was born before 2008 — so the typical Raed is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
477
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.9% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Raed rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,612
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,424
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,729
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2022 (23)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,388
1986

Spellings of Raed

Raed is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 19.8% against Raed's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Raed is used

Across 1910–2025, Raed was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Raed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Raed around the world

Where Raed ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1988–2025
    #2,808
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2011–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2008
    #726
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Raed by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,500
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,424
Best rank ever
#4,388
1986
Peak year
2022
23 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
477
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Raed

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Raed

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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